Category: Profiles

Mr. Leisner’s career as a guitarist began auspiciously with top prizes in both the 1975 Toronto and 1981 Geneva International Guitar Competitions. In the 1980s, a disabling hand injury, focal dystonia, interrupted his performing...

Daniele Lazzari was born in Italy in 1972. He devotes himself to classical music performing in Italy, Hungary where he actually lives, and often abroad. Though he took a classical guitar in his hands...

Dimitris Kotronakis was born in Heraklion, Creta (Greece), in 1973. His studies on classical guitar begun when he was at the age of seven, and were completed under guidance of Vassilis Kanaras in 1992,...

Born in Liverpool, Steven took up the guitar at the early age of 5. In 2003, Steven successfully auditioned for a place at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, where...

Eric Henderson began playing guitar at age six. At age thirteen his teacher took him to Los Angeles to attend a Concert by the great Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia. His teacher arranged a private...

Born of an artistic family – his father and grandfather both famed painters, his mother an accomplished pianist – O.G. had to choose between a path strewn with brushes and colours and a world...

Perth (Western Australia) based, award-winning guitarist/composer, Duncan Gardiner, is a truly international artist, having performed across Scotland, England, Germany and Prague, in addition to concerts within his homeland of Australia. His playing is often...

Michael Fogler is well-known in the Ohio Valley region for his 30 years of outstanding performances, both solo and in chamber music. In 1978, he became the first faculty member in guitar at the...

Thomas Flippin is an award-winning American classical guitarist, published composer, and acclaimed music educator. Motivated by the loss of his mother, Flippin devoted himself to music and graduated with honors from the University of...

By many music critics and music lovers, Marcin Dylla is considered one of the most outstanding classical guitar players. He owes this position, among others, to unparalleled number of awards at musical competitions. In...